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Reactions Yep, once again it's that time. What time you might ask yourself. Well it is the time and place where you are going to see the feedback and the reactions for the previous issue(s) of this magazine. As I've mentioned before then some magazines see this kind of chapter as pure waste of disk space and as a sort of ass- kissing towards the readers. Hmm, I will give the same answer as I did the last time. BULLSHIT!!! I seriously see this chapter as one of the most im- portant ones for the excistence of a mag. This is the direct way to get input for the issues to come, so be sure that Skyhigh will continue as always. If other scenemags see this as nonsence then let it be their problem, coz it definetely isn't ours.. Ok, enought about that. Let's get right on with the reactions. -------------------------------------------- DEAR BIZ! This is Electric speaking. I'm writing this note while reading the new Skyhigh... and I'll include this to my next sending... THA BIZ-MIX: Remember that I am also old-style- mailer. I like to get letters, comix, vhs etc, via mail. Skyhigh is at the moment my fave magazine (it has been for a long time, maybe I just haven't said it..). So, I'm on your side in this "boardmags vs. mailmags"- case. That means I'll help you every way I can, which as you know means covers & gfx. Anyway Skyhigh is in my opinion the second GREAT one after "Script", which STILL is unbeatable (Just miss Remix & his ex- cellent texts...) CHARTS: Well, maybe Shuze should get a lesson in scenehistory. Too many (handle)/???.. For ex. : "Atte/???", which of courz is "Atte/Extend" Also "Zardax/???" in the music charts (???=Origo)! Just give him a friendly SLAP on the face, :) Kewl. You're an atheist too... (So am I..) COVERCRUISE: What can my not so old eyes see!! "Duce (ex-Extend, Domine Lilith)", slow a bit. Duce is a member of Extend as before, but he is also a mem- ber of our graphic designing label "Domine Lilith" (or in short: Domine-L). Btw, just noticed the same thingy with me. Correct it please! ....oops read few lines below and there you get the correction, sorry 'bout this, but you know -the press has got the effect to people.. Ps. You're dropping members from Ext one by one. Heh Hangman/ex-Accuracy is Finnish person (my ex class mate actually).. Suicidal/ex Men At Work = Suicidal/Doom Patrol/Palace Ok. Took 3.5 hours to read this through (not so deep- ly, but most of it; you know I am the busiest man in this galaxy). Anyway, great mag, the new outfit works better than the old one. Is there a mouse-driver (Amiga)? Didn't have any time to try, if not, please get it!! Ok, your mag is more and more like a desktop. If you could get a loader that recognizes the different sides of the disk, so you don't have to push the button - just turn disk.. (seen kind of only in a old "The Ancient Temple" demo.. Still remember how we in Extend lost our hope finding out how it worked). That'd be a dream.. Keep it on.. (I mean the mag..) ehh :) Yo Tommi. Nice to get a reaction from one of the busiest men in the scene today!! He-he!! Seriously, it's great to hear that you support me in the mail vs. board saga!! Sure there are nothing which beats the excitement of get- ting a special sending with a VHS or a comix by mail! And you know what! I belive we are not the only ones; on the contrary, I really think that most sceners feel this way!. So come on ya'll, give us your support, show us what way we shall choose. I would also like to use the opportunity to thank you for your offer concerning your help in the shape of gfx. I would also like to salute you once more for the brilliant logo, you did for issue #20. Concerning the charts!! Well I think I will pass it on to Shuze. Slap!!! Covercruise!! Ooops, you were to quick on the trigger this time, but you corrected it yourself, so who gives a flying fuck!! 3.5 hours.. wuahhh, do you know how much time I have spent so you could use lousy 3.5 hours to read it?? He he.. I know, I know!! This is the way it works. Hope- fully some people think about how much work we put into an issue of this magazine, but hey, read Tha Biz- mix for more! You end your reaction with critizism concerning the outfit. First some roses; Thank you!! Next you bring up some constructive suggestions. A mouse driver!! Well as far as I know then it should be ready soon. I think and hope it will be ready for this issue, but see for yourself. About the turn disc thing.. Well we have been talking about this too (Raz and me!!), so I would not be too surprised if it will be installed soon!! So just wait and see!! Ok, Tommi this was all for this time. Stay just as you are; a real friend.. I will see to that I keep it up.. erhm I mean .. keep it on. BIZ KID BIZ KID -------------------------------------------- After a trip to Finland I will travel on to my English & German speaking Polish pal. Take it away Rafael! -------------------------------------------- Yo Biz Kid! Rap/ Onslaught here! What can I say? You killed me again! How many times am I supposed to be killed? Just don't answer, the more the better. As you know I haven't reacted for quite some time, but now I have to! Texts: traffic as always, nothing to add, I've always liked yours & co texts. Music: ruling (hi Qbhead) Length: MOTHAFUKKIN' KILLIN'! That ??? a great job! (God knows what he wrote -bk!) From now on, I regard you as a compulsive textwriter and I expect you to go right way. If SKYHIGH had van- ished from de scene, I would have killed myself (would I?). Anyway I wanna say something to the staff aswell. Sorry 4 my talkin' to BIZ KID only, I know you are all in charge with all the facilities. Just do it (Intruder, Chaotic, Shuze & rest) I am takin' a bow. And by the way Jesper, pleez remove my addy from the addycorner, thanx! RAP/ONSLAUGHT Ps. this reaction is a bit emotional.. but, who knows, maybe I wanted you to work away with the mag? (pos- sible?) Otherwise you'll face the music (Kiddin') Yo Rafael. Nice to hear from you again! It seems like you really dug the 20th issue of this magazine. That's cool!! I also like that you are talking to my other editors, without them it couldn't be done. So on behalf on the entire Skyhigh staff I would like to shout out a huge Thank you! About killing yourself; hm, I wasn't allowed to answer that one, so I better don't - hehe! Ok my friend I hope you will like this issue too, and I hope to hear from you here again - soon!! I'll see to that your addy will be removed. A b c ya!! BIZ KID BIZ KID -------------------------------------------- Ok I will stay in the land of strange words : Poland! Next in line is another cool buddy of mine. Please say hello to Druid of Agony & Avantgarde. -------------------------------------------- Small reaction: Skyhigh as always was x-cellent, but I started to laugh, when I noticed some stuff charts.. Do you know Bizzie, that here in Poland, a big amount of sceners only votes for Polish guyz! There were some state- ments in some 'lame' zines like : "Vote only for Polish men, we are better than others". Only Poland makes it possible ;-) . So dear sceners, don't take this charts too seriously or if you see an unknown group or zine (like Polish - Astoria, Always, Prawda), just forget all about them. Yours... Druid/Agony/Avantgarde Typical Polish anticlerical guy! Fuck the system! You Robert. So what's up my friend. Nice to hear from you in this chapter. Also nice to hear that you really liked the previous issue of this magazine. About the Polish zines... Well I am glad to get some reactions on this subject. I feel just like you (and so does the next reaction from Hornet!!). We are seeing way to many unknown Polish mags in the charts these days.That some people wrote this kind of shit in their mags is a shame. But then again, they can write what- ever they feel like. What I think is the real point in this matter, is that people perhaps are too influ- enced by the Polish mags (or rather the editors). .They should wake up and smell the coffee. Time for a reality check. Sure it is great to support ones own country. I would have done the same. Voting for some bad, Polish written, not well-spread, unknown mags just to put Poland on the Scene map is lame. Normally I hate when this word is used, but this is just the way I feel at the moment. Come on Polish people... vote for quality and stop all this friendship voting!! It is proven so many times that you have to earn the votes by doing something extraordinary, not by hav- ing a lot of freinds. Think about it!!! Ok I think that was all. No more nagging for now. Stay cool my friend. I'll be seeing you sometime!! BIZ KID BIZ KID -------------------------------------------- As mentioned before then I'll stay in Poland a little longer, to hear what Hornet of Agony/Acrise+Excess has to say. Take it away Miro! -------------------------------------------- Hello Bizzie! ...and I made it again! I am the mosquito and my aim is to disturb you as much as I can! I'm Hornet, a modest member of Agony and Acrise (+ Excess). After reading issue #20, I've had only one thing to do: write a reaction, I wouldn't regret it but also you would miss me wouldn't you? he he. In general look issue #20 was a killer. It is obvious that major magazines celebrate their anneversary with something special. But what we have got from Camelot last time was totally outstanding! personal- ly, as I am oldie lover, I liked most those interviews with Chris Huelsbeck and JCH, that was GREAT! Geeez, I had to wipe my tears.. ... as always, Golden Quartet (BK, Shuze, Cupid & Mad) has proven that they really know for what people have invented a mag. But I've also noticed some more wise words from sceners like King Fisher and Metal. (btw, text about IRC was GREAT! looking for the se- quel!!) Nothing more to say, just WELL DONE! Ofcourse, I am quite satisfied with your answer about musics, although I still miss more musics, I've found quite ok solution: it is not hard to decrease the vol- ume and start my FT350 stereo set, huh? Outfit is mindblasting, much better than the previous one, really powerfull coding! But this is a reaction, not asslicking, so let me criticize it a bit, ok? First impression after loading Big Twenty was that the mag didn't work with two drives (at least not on my own ones.) Anyway, would be nice if next issue will work with two floppys, particulary becoz there was said that Skyhigh will stay on two disks. Furthermore I noticed that zine destroy itself, even when I disable my AR card. What about removing that bug? Btw. "ZIP" gives no special results, I have to tape SYS64738. I was also negative surprised that keyboard is not active in mainmenu. Hmmmm.. I really hate joy control- ling. Could you please do me a favour (and not only me) and enable keys next time? Ofcourse leave joy control for all those who love it! Uff, now last thing which I don't like. Surely I am not blind but I had problems while leaving sub menu's, because the "sensible" area (Marked with something like "X" letter) is too small. Beside that, outfit is OK! Charts.. I am not happy to see them as they are again some bugs have occured. Funny, but this is NOT Shuze fault, but some Polish LAMERS who have no idea how to vote. Anyway, as I'd like to suport Skyhigh as much as possible I've prepared a 'blacklist' of things that should not be present in the charts. Further I'll ex- plain why. Magazines: Trawnik, Astoria, Always, Vitality, Viadro Prawda.... ... those magazines are all written in POLISH and does absolutely nothing for the worldwide scene! I think that votes given for those zines should not be taken into consideration in Skyhigh's charts. Imagine that some Danes have started to vote for XXXzine written in Danish, and don't give their votes to an internatio- nal zine like Skyhigh, Relax or other ones. Would it be FAIR? I guess NOT. Just cut those names off and the charts will look fair and normal. If my thoughts are not enough, ask someone from Germany, Netherlands or England what e.g. "Astoria" means to him. Just nothing!! Btw "Astoria" is an Agony mag (and I am the boss, ha!). So now you're sure that I'm fair if I wrote the name of Agony's own zine among others which come from Poland. Remove it too. I know that this is only one kind of charts that can be changed by Shuze without any suspection from other dudes.. Hmm, other charts also seems stupid, single look over them is enuff to say that charts we- re filled in Poland. Hey Shuze, don't take it as a personal offence. You are NOT responsible for it! Some Polish men really do not know how they should behave, doing such things is a sign of less scene knowledge. Or to say it in stronger words: this is just lameness. Scene in Poland is not as bright as some western magazines stated, here I bring you the proof. Many people laming around and it seems that it would not change too quick. Ha, oldies charts! Surely Cupid is right - how to define an oldie-scener.... Hmm, let me try to describe it. For me "Oldie" is a scener/group who left the scene be- fore 1991 or is unactive since 4 years. Ofcoz it may be changed, I just express my opinion. Also I know this topic shouldn't be discussed only by me, BK or Cupid. Each dude who is in love with oldies should say his own opinion. Gathering their words should help building such kind of charts. I am SURE that there'll be action! XAKK, MON, Sarge, Contex, 801 DC etc - I feel excited. Try it - do it - have fun. That sort of charts will bring back the mystical atmosphere, don't you think? Ok, as I said it somewhere before, I am the insect and there is no cure. Beware! After # 21 you should ex- pect another bunch of words from me, hope you will live in painfull expecting... About my English: Any progress noticed? Best wishes and warm greetings to entire Skyhigh staff, especially those two (BK and CUPID) who lives were in real danger, but they found enuff courage to me face me! Ciao friends. Miro (Hornet/Agony/Acrise+Ex) Yohoooo Miro.. Damn what a long, and cool, reaction from you this time. So you liked our effort with issue #20 of Skyhigh That makes me quite happy. Just a minute......... Ok I am back again. I was just gone looking for my anti-mosquito-spray. So you cannot scare me - hehe... If you get too close you will get a portion. So better take care. Ok back to the reactions; Nope we haven't installed 2 drives loader system. And to tell you the truth, I don't know if it is possible with Glasnost's loader, but I will pop the question on to Raz. But I seriously think that it's unnecessary to install it. Wait and see! So you are also an oldie-freak. Cool! Yeah I really think we came up with some crunchy bites for you in the previous issue. Especially the interview ?!? with JCH was strange to do. Damn that man talks a LOT!! I willl see see if we can find more of this kind.. Concerning the roses for the editors!! I will pass 'em on, to the guys.. As you can see, then Kingfisher did one heck of a chapter for me, and as I talked to him on TP5, he told me that I probably could expect more in the future. So go ahead Linus, send, send..... The IRC chapter by Metal was also a great chapter, in my eyes. So beware that it will return. Hmmm, you still want more tunes in the magazine.. Well you got my answer last time, so you know how I feel (eventhough I may have put it a bit hard last time..) But I see that you have found a great solution to the problem. Way to go, Miro.. The outfit: Hmmm, I haven't had any problems with the outfit de- stroying itself. I know that Raz doesn't use anything besides his AR when he is checking and seeing Skyhigh, and as far as I know then he haven't got any probs. I never use anything but Final Cartridge 3, and I have never had any problems either!! About the missing keyboard controller.... Hmm Miro if you had read the note on the disk, you would have seen the reason why!!! We were totally out of time. But this time it is installed. "X" - Yep I agree 100%. The 'button' is too small! But it will be corrected for this issue Charts... You're not the only one who're complaining about the charts. Or to put it more correct; the Polish Mags.. You give us some examples, of Polish magazines which is written in Polish, which shouldn't be included in the charts. My deepset respect for including your own mag aswell. This is a fine gesture my friend.... I do not know many of the mentioned magazines, for the exacts same reason as you mention yourself. We (the western countries) don't know them. And to tell you the truth, then I back you up 100%. I too think they should be removed. I would feel bad, if someone voted for a mag written in Danish. I would for sure give it another thought whether it should be included in Skyhigh. I'll pass it on to Shuze. I suggest that we leave them out!! Oldiecharts.. Hmm, yeah what an interessting concept Maybe we should give it some deeper thoughts. On the other side I think it will be as good as impossible to make some proper rules. What does the readers say about this??? let me hear the readers Voice!! Some might even say that we should live in the present and not in the past. Somehow they are right, but still there must be these flashbacks, as you get in every issue of this magazine. Ok Miro, I guess that's all for this time. You weren't bugging me that much, so I'll put the bug-spray away again - hehe! I would ofcoz like to get another piece of reaction from you after this issue. Please don't write it in TUC's noter again.!!!! Use a normal upscroll or Face-text noter format!! About your english.. Yep I do see some progress. Sure there is errors here and there, but what the heck. I know that I too make errors. We just have to keep working on it to make it better - right! Ok my friend, I am looking forward to your next sign of life. 'Till then stay cool!! BIZ KID BIZ KID -------------------------------------------- Ok I guess that's all for this time. (Perhaps for the last time..) So I guess it is time to give my colleagues a chance!! Meet you out there... BIZ KID BIZ KID